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"If nothing else, it would equip every school leaver with basic work skills and some sense of purpose."

By implication, you're raising the possibility that you lack any of these things, because you were never shouted at for two years by people who'd rather you weren't clogging up their previously efficient unit.

If, on the other hand, you do have work skills and a sense of purpose, I don't see what national service would add. Why not just concentrate on whatever it was that smoothed your way?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 13:08, 1 reply)

I know what it was...
Basically it was being shouted at for 12 years by people who were annoyed that I was clogging up their previously efficient classroom.

Currently our education system is a shocking mess.
I wish I could pretend I knew everything that's gone wrong.
I don't, but I can point to one thing that's utterly certain.
It's been going on for almost exactly two generations and is confined almost entirely to families who have been living in Britain all that time.

Apply your own caveats to the sweeping generalisation.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 11:27, closed)